The framework broadly outlines how to teach health topics by each grade level. Its family life and sexuality guidelines have been the most controversial.
Sex education researchers say the rhetoric used in these disagreements misrepresents what’s actually being taught., said Maryland’s framework is “developmentally and age appropriate.” The gender identity section teaches students noncontroversial topics, like that there are no jobs appropriate for one gender and not another.
At a Carroll County school board meeting in April, the curriculum wasn’t on the school board’s agenda, but multiple parents asked the board to oppose adopting it during public comment. But the board’s initial adoption received vitriol online, and misinformation was quickly spread among family groups, Young said. Daniel Cox, a candidate in the Republican primary for Maryland governor who has earned former president Donald Trump’s endorsement, accused Young online of “misleading children for potential chemical castration and sexualized grooming.
“[The school board’s] job is to set policy for the school system, listen to the community and adopt,” Young said. “And if they would let that process work, I think in the end, people would be fine with the outcome.”Kris Fair, the executive director of the Frederick Center — a support center for LGBTQ+ individuals, said initially, the committee meeting wasn’t on their radar as a source of potential conflict because the framework was so innocuous.
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